‘세련된’ 음악의 탄생: 1950~1960년대 클래식 장르의 감정 정치

Abstract

The Birth of ‘Refined’ Music: The Emotional Politics of Classical Music in Korea in the 1950s and 1960s. Yu-Jun Choi This paper tries to analyze the formation of emotional judgments related to ‘refined’ music in Korean culture. To this end, I will pay attention to the situation in which the institutionalization of classical music took place around the university system and to the way in which pop culture is represented centered around movies from the 1950s to the early 1960s, right after the Korean War. This could be considered as an emotional sociological approach to musical modernization in Korea. The 1950s was a time when imagined geography of the global and the local was widely formed among the Korean public, with the U.S. culture introduced in earnest in the wake of the Korean War. The main point of the paper is that the popular orientation toward ‘refined’ music was linked to the cultural and political ideology of ‘westernization’ led by the U.S. at that time, and the institutionalization of cultural tastes or imagination through it. The popular desire for ‘westernization’ and ‘americanization’ until the mid- to late 1950s was expressed in a transitional period through pop music genres related to the entertainment culture of the U.S. military in Korea, but in the transition to the 1960s, such desires were repressed and subjugated and replaced by the image of highbrow classical genre. This process will be more specifically addressed in the chapter IV, which analyzes musical images that are represented in the box office movies of the time.